Company

We are Catalyst Group, a hardware company founded in 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia. We build the Wireless Bobulator. That’s the whole company in one sentence, and we like it that way.

The operating choices behind that sentence are explicit: read how we build the WB-1.

Mission

Make complex, signal-rich environments feel like one orchestrated system. A gym, a factory floor, a venue, a building — each is a mess of sensors and actuators that were never designed to talk to each other. Our job is to make them behave as if they were, in real time, deterministically, at the edge. If you’re not bobulating, what’s the point?

Team

Headcount, as measured: 4engineersfirmware · RF · power · web , 1designerindustrial + brand , and 1opssupply · test · fulfillment — 6people total . Small on purpose — the WB-1 is a focused product and it does not need a hundred people behind it. Meet each of them on the team page.

The founders shipped hardware before this — controls and connected devices that went to real factory floors and didn’t come back. That scar tissue is why the WB-1 has an A/B partition, a watchdog, and a brown-out routine instead of a “we’ll fix it in firmware” roadmap.

Backing

Backed by angels who shipped hardware before — operators and engineers who know the difference between a demo and a product that survives a loading dock. We took money from people who have personally debugged a returns pile, not from people who have only read about one.

Timeline

Each milestone moved the WB-1 from “works on the bench” to “works in a building someone else owns.” The alpha with eight design partners is the one that mattered most — nothing finds the gap in your failure-mode handling like a site you didn’t anticipate.

Careers

We’re hiring. We don’t have a long ladder of open reqs; we have a short list of hard problems and room for people who want to own one. If you’ve shipped real-time firmware, fought an antenna into compliance, or built a fleet management plane that didn’t fall over — tell us what you’d build here.

The fastest way in is to send us something you made, not a résumé.

Here’s what you’d build. These are the seats open right now — each one owns a subsystem end to end, not a ticket queue:

• RF / antenna engineer — LoRa & BLE coexistence, three radios on one puck.
• Real-time firmware engineer — Cortex-M7 + FreeRTOS, the 1 kHz control tick.
• Frontend engineer — the web control plane (React), REST + WebSocket client.
• Mechanical engineer — die-cast aluminium revisions, draft angles, thermals.
• Customer engineer — onboarding the first 50 customers, in the field.

Contact

For everything else — a unit, a question, a hard requirement — talk to the team. We read all of it.